If you’re not a shift, ask one to print out a ‘Tip Distribution Report’. Make sure to check the date range so that it’s the right week. Then make sure to see if any partner is missing from that week (sometimes people don’t clock in and write their time in the book or some other reasons). Now, this is important. For safety, tips are dropped into part of the safe that is hard to get to and has a ‘curfew’. If you’re doing tips in the morning, no problem. If you’re doing it in the afternoon, send a message to the working shift and ask them to ‘pull the tips down’ (they’ll know what this means) before THREE PM.

Next is really straight forward. You cut all tips bags and take out your money. For easy organization, take out all the bills first and organize them in stacks with their own kinds - 1s, 5s, 10s, etc. Then get your coin sorter, make sure it is plugged in. And this is important, only put like less than a handful of coins in the shorter at a time. The sorter gets jammed easily. Not a big deal and easily fixable. Just slow you down but I’m sure you don’t want that. Slowly work your coins into those rolls you see in the tills. If you have left over i.e. not enough to make a full roll, leave them in the sorter for next week tips. Then you exchange those rolls for actual bills. To cover your behind, do this in front of the camera with another partner, preferably a shift. AND MAKE SURE they confirm the correct amount going in and out of the safe.

Last and almost done, tally the dollar amount. Divided that by the total number of hours at the bottom of the distribution report. That will be the tip dollars per hours work. Write that amount on the report. Then multiply that by each partner’s hours for that week. Now, you will notice that not all numbers are whole. Round up and down depending. Prioritize the .7 and above and round up. Anything .3 down is rounded down. Then tally those dollars, subtract from the total and divide the left over the more ambiguous .5 and .6. Once you’re done, don’t forget to put the report back into the tip bag and let everyone know tips are done.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions or if I skip a step.